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Ken Doctor / Politico:
Amazon offers Prime members Washington Post National Digital Edition subscriptions free for six months, then $48 per year — Jeff Bezos (finally) pumps up the Post with Prime — In a potentially game-changing move, Amazon will begin offering free to dirt-cheap subscriptions to The Washington Post …
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Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
The Washington Post aims to become a nationally dominant paper through Amazon customers
The Washington Post aims to become a nationally dominant paper through Amazon customers
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Gizmodo, The New York Observer and @washingtonian
Bloomberg L.P.:
Twitter and Bloomberg sign licensing deal increasing Twitter data available in terminals and offering a curated feed of financial tweets — Bloomberg and Twitter Sign Data Licensing Agreement — Bloomberg adds enhanced custom alerts and tools to its Twitter offering
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Media Wire Daily, @vindugoel and USA Today
Open State Foundation:
Open State Foundation has uploaded Politwoops' archive of 1M deleted politician tweets to the Internet Archive — Open State preserves Politwoops' history on the net — In a move to preserve the public record for everyone, Open State has uploaded its complete Politwoops archive …
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WebProNews, @niemanlab, @openstateeu, Gigaom, Motherboard, Gizmodo, Forbes and Engadget
James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:
La Presse to drop weekday print edition beginning January 1, 2016, push readers to La Presse+ tablet edition — Quebec's La Presse to scrap weekday print edition to focus on app — La Presse will scrap its weekday print edition starting Jan. 1, staking its future on its popular tablet app …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp to Acquire Social Video Ad Platform Unruly for up to $176 Million — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp will acquire social video advertising platform Unruly for up to $176 million, the company said Wednesday. — “Unruly is a feisty and creative company with a start-up sensibility …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Apple's News, which launches today, is the latest in a trend toward distributed content … Today's release of iOS 9 will see the debut of News, the much-anticipated content recommendation app that has been hailed alternatively as a rival to Flipboard and as a potential replacement for every other news app.
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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Publishers need to focus on sustainable business models and journalism that works in tandem with that model — Popping the Publishing Bubble — Over the last few weeks and months there has been increasing alarm that today, September 16, is a critical one for publishers — and by critical …
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Nora Doyle-Burr / Concord Monitor:
Public library in New Hampshire votes to continue supporting Tor for anonymous browsing despite concerns from DHS, police and local government — West Lebanon library to keep backing Tor — From left, Mary Sorens, of West Lebanon, N.H., Carla Gericke, of Manchester, N.H., Jason Sorens …
Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
Warner Bros. Sells Digital Content Distribution Service to Vubiquity as It Trims Costs — Warner Bros. is outsourcing its digital content distribution business as it fights to trim overhead costs. — The studio sold its Digital-End-to-End managed content service to Vubiquity …
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Papitchaya Boonngok / Associated Press:
Thai journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk forced to resign under pressure from The Nation newspaper after government detainment — Newly freed Thai journalist forced to quit newspaper — BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai journalist just freed from detention by the military government said Wednesday he has resigned under pressure from his newspaper.
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bangkokpost.com, BBC, ChinaPost.com.tw, The Irrawaddy and The Nation
Firat Alkaç / Hurriyet Daily News:
Turkish magazine Nokta raided, copies of latest issues confiscated after charges of “insulting the Turkish president” and “making terrorist propaganda” — Turkish magazine raided, copies collected for insulting Erdoan … Turkish magazine Nokta has been raided …
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Brian Flood / TVNewser:
ABC News Takes Viewers To Syria With Virtual Reality Storytelling — ABC News becomes the first U.S. news division to launch a virtual reality platform taking viewers directly to where news is happening. — For ABC News VR's inaugural project, ABC News foreign correspondent Alex Marquardt …
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